The Oldest Living Thing In The World: The Mysterious Methuselah Tree | Oldest Tree

On a desolate mountain top in California lives the world's oldest organism - a gnarled and twisted bristlecone pine. The scientist who discovered the tree gave it the name Methuselah. It was a seedling when the Egyptian pyramids were being built and a mature tree at the time of Christ. It is now...

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